After a reporter’s laptop and notebook were confiscated in a council meeting in St. Catherines, CBC’s The Investigators’s Diana Swain talks to Phil Tunley about journalists’ legal rights while doing their work. Tunley explains that journalists have the same Charter rights as others, including the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure:

“We have increasing recognition in the courts that there is a zone of privacy for reporters’ work product – to interview and take notes and to keep lists of confidential sources and to have that zone of privacy only invaded in exceptional circumstances.”